Alejandro Toledo cancels visit to United States - was to meet with US officials and keynote the Peace Corps 40th plus one

Read and comment on this story from the official government newspaper, "El Peruano," on Peru's President Alejandro Toledo and the cancellation of his trip to the United States where he was to meet with US government officials including National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and where he was to be the keynote speaker at the Peace Corps 40th plus one on June 21.

President Toledo has decided to cancel his visit due to a political crisis in Peru over the privitization of government owned electrical power generating plants in Southern Peru that led to protests in Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, that have left 100 injured and $100 million in property damages.

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